Creative Think Tank

Pop Art is now a constant presence in our culture. However, the movement only really emerged in 1950s America and the UK, developing more in the 1960s with artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein who led a new breed of artists in revolt against the accepted art and cultural norms of the time. For a much more detailed explanation and to see some fantastic examples of Pop Art check out the Tate, while this feature explores Pop Art in product design.

Gustav Klimt at Atelier des Lumières takes visitors on a journey through 100 years of Viennese painting. The immersive exhibition, which has just been extended until January 6, 2019 takes an original look at the works of Klimt – marking the centenary of his death, through a presentation of the portraits, landscapes, nudes, colours, and gilding that revolutionised Viennese painting at the end of the nineteenth century.

As well as giving us a taste for what we’ll be wearing next year, London Fashion Week also saw the return of designer Anya Hindmarch’s Chubby Hearts campaign featuring a huge ‘cloud’ beanbag in the City’s historic Banqueting House.

Interactive architecture and installations are responsive to their changing circumstances using sensors, processors, and effectors embedded into their core design and structure. This means that they go beyond merely being automated, to include interactions and responses that are pure communication, placing the design firmly in the emotive and artistic realm.

Here, we bring you some examples of interactive architectural and installation projects and the people and studios behind them.

It’s not often we come across agencies that truly live up to the oft-used hype ‘pushing the boundaries’. However, when we found Loop.pH, we knew it was special, so we decided to devote a whole feature to some of its recent work.

Kinetic art is any art that either depends on movement to create the desired effect or art that creates a perceivable movement for the viewer. Some installations allow the viewer to walk in, on, or become a part of them. They usually seek to communicate sensorial experiences, which allow the artist to break barriers and often include multiple disciplines. Here are some of our favourite kinetic artists.